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Added by Unknown 1684 on Jan 31st, 2021

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1862

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"This sheet music cover mocks Negro soldiers as bewildered incompetents, except for the drummer who is in "his place" as a musician." (Blacking Up)

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Source: Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll. Oxford University Press, 1974, p121